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“History will not look fondly on politicians and so-called "leaders" of this country who stood by and enabled this.” Or cosied up to the perpetrators.

@gamblord.bsky.social @barrykramer.bsky.social For the VOD:

@commandersterling.bsky.social I think you would really like the horror game "Routine". Seems to be a real sleeper hit, came out late 2025; I just finished it, and I can't stop thinking about it.

#nzpol Data released by Stats NZ today shows that the cost of living rose at its fastest rate for 18 months. Prices rose for 80% of items in the CPI basket, meaning growth in prices was broad-based. Minimum wage workers are now facing a 3rd year of real terms cuts in wages. A thread

The public said fuck off, so they tried an underhanded way & now MickyDs have a 24 in Wanaka without public input. 'new proposal was approved through a non-notified process, meaning the public had no opportunity to comment.' www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...

Tyler O'Ryan Gramlin, 32, of Borden, IN is a Border Patrol Agent who has traveled from state to state committing extreme violence. On Jan 21, 2026 Gramlin emptied a can of pepper spray directly in the face of a prone protester at point-blank range in Minneapolis #MPLS #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE

"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.

@rossthesedays.bsky.social Might I humbly recommend two metal albums for you: No Terror In The Bang - "Heal" Calva Louise - "Edge of the Abyss"

A reminder to #nzpol specifically but everyone generally; "They" are people. Like all humans unhoused folk just want shelter, warmth, nourishment and connection. "They" are not the problem... 1/2 www.1news.co.nz/2026/01/17/t...

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

The next government should give Beck and Rocket Lab a simple choice: abandon your military contracts or lose your license to launch rockets from Aotearoa.

I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox! I made it for a game, but it's free to use. I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble. If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :) castpixel.itch.io/animevox

how do you release a video statement like the one @governorwalz.mn.gov just put out and then have your state troopers assisting the very occupation you've called to end

NZ's favourite little war criminal Peter Beck is going to be helping the US invasion efforts.

Golfers really are the most morally bankrupt sportsmen out there. Rip up all the courses, rewild them and use them as public spaces for everyone to enjoy

crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them” except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid

Oh hey @zantilla.bsky.social got two new album recs for you: Calva Louise - "Edge of the Abyss" Moron Police - "Pachinko"

They're trying so hard to justify a murder. And every American should know: if they kill you, this is what they'll do to you.

They expect us to hold their hurt feelings as more pressing than our very lives. They’re not unclear about Ross killing Good. They’re trying to “but technically” their way into publicly saying she deserved to die like that.

It would be great if media and politicians could be much louder here. A 2025 research study analyzed nearly 96,000 deepfake videos online in 2023. It found that 99% of the persons depicted in sexually explicit deepfakes were women. www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/researchpape...

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."

are any NZ media talking about grok and applying pressure, let alone any politicians??

First day back & I'm casting through the past year's judicial review cases to see if there's anything interesting that's passed me by, in preparation for my presentation at the NZCPL Govt Law Year in Review seminar on 18 Feb. Do consider coming, NZ govt nerds. Online attendance *is* an option!

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

They've arrested 29 people protesting murder. They've arrested 0 murderers. They care more about property damage than murder. As they always have.

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

If you're not willing to arrest the killer, don't arrest the demonstrators.

If they declare martial law in the US are we still friends with them? Do we keep the FBI office in Wellington? We’ve just undermined our elections with the passing of the Electoral Amendment Bill, following the US blueprint - the threat is real, and the next election the most consequential to date.

pwease 🥺 can we stop shouting about this Climate Emergency thing. Coal is still good, let's hear both sides 😢 - - - If there was a choice between worker flight and "wealth flight", Aotearoa deserves having some wealth flight if this is really the BEST the private sector can offer us. #nzpol

DHS agents are stomping on Renee Good's memorial.

I don't know what to say about this other than that it feels like the annihilation of the human spirit. There's no possible compromise with ICE or the people who support them, and even if there were a possible compromise, it would be immoral

Not sure how bad the deepfake problem is? Read Stella's farewell thread. This is an extreme form of remote sexual harassment that can now be used to target anyone, regardless of platform, in seconds. Despite news stories focusing mostly on CSAM it's still unchecked and rampant on Twitter.

Make it viral.

In 1970 Crosy, Stills, Nash and Young released a song written by Neil Young titled Ohio, It was about the Kent State Shootings of May 4 1970 where Ohio National Guard fired on students protesting US involvement in vietnam killing 4 and injuring 9, that was 55 years ago. Fucked up then, fucked up now

@gamblord.bsky.social Late Christmas present from my partner!!

In light of the murder of an observer by ICE agents in the *same exact city* where this franchised Hilton hotel was openly punished for refusing/cancelling ICE reservations, I have completed an email template documenting this that I'm sending out to relevant conventions. Feel free to DM for a copy.

This is why I posted the video when I did. Sorry there's not more warning on the post, but I was in the streets. Multiple media sources had the video for a while, and the right-wing propaganda machine was already sending their lies out. I saw it with my own eyes.

The thinly-veiled signalling of the Christchurch terrorist's violent extremism in the latest Voices for Freedom email, amongst the other things noted, is an indication of what to expect this year. @paulapenfold.bsky.social's 'Fire & Fury' is worth rewatching. interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/08/circ...

you don’t actually have to tow the line on foreign policy out of some immensely misguided respect for ‘national unity’ or whatever. this is a coalition government that is actively supporting genocide and US state terrorism. give people a fucking alternative asap please

So New Zealand’s statement on an illegal attack on another country was made on an American platform overrun by bots, by the Foreign Minister, not the Prime Minister, who was presumably briefed before or just after the attack and remains silent hours later… and there’s still no offical press release?

Venezuela #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nzpol

This needed to exist

Don’t swim if you are in Wellington. Heavy rains means the harbour and beaches are replete with the foul emission of our industrial settlements. Code brown. Poop in the water.

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

I don't think corruption gets enough follow up in New Zealand. The links (should I say "concidences") between donations to politicians/parties and laws passed. The NZF/Costello tobacco link. NZF and fishing industry. Property and virtually every RW party.